The creation and validation of the Developmental Emotional Faces Stimulus Set

Alyssa S. Meuwissen; Jacob E. Anderson; Philip David Zelazo

doi:10.3758/s13428-016-0756-7

The creation and validation of the Developmental Emotional Faces Stimulus Set

Alyssa S. Meuwissen, Jacob E. Anderson, Philip David Zelazo

Institute of Child Development

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Abstract

The Developmental Emotional Faces Stimulus Set (DEFSS) is designed to provide a standardized set of emotional stimuli that includes both child and adult faces and that has been validated by participants across a wide range of ages. This article describes the creation and validation of the DEFSS, which includes 404 validated facial photographs of people between 8 and 30 years old displaying five different emotional expressions: happy, angry, fearful, sad, and neutral. The emotions in all photographs were identified correctly by 86 % of the raters (minimum 55 %), and validity did not vary as a function of the age group of the model or of the raters, indicating that the pictures are equally appropriate for use across the entire age range. Strengths and limitations of the DEFSS are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	960-966
Number of pages	7
Journal	Behavior Research Methods
Volume	49
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-016-0756-7
State	Published - Jun 1 2017

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This work was supported by an Institute of Child Development Departmental Small Grant and NIMH Training Grant Number 5T32MH015755.

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© 2016, Psychonomic Society, Inc.

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Emotions
Face processing
Stimulus set

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